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Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands Antilles: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

July 19, 1999

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Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands Antilles: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1999) accessed September 27, 2024

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This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix explores four policy issues—fiscal policy, public sector pension reforms, monetary management, and labor market performance—which are crucial for understanding the recent performance of the economy of the Netherlands Antilles and which will need to be addressed to restore the prospect of durable economic growth. The paper reviews experience with fiscal adjustment in the Netherlands Antilles, focusing in particular on the 1996–97 adjustment program. The paper also analyzes the sustainability of the public pension system of the country.

Subject: Expenditure, Labor, Labor markets, Pension spending, Pensions, Revenue administration

Keywords: Antillean economy well, Antillean labor market, Caribbean, CR, Credit growth, Economy, Economy of the Netherlands Antilles, Economy's flexibility, Government, ISCR, Labor market performance, Labor markets, Pension spending, Pensions, Premium

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    75

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1999/065

  • Stock No:

    1ANTEA0011999

  • ISBN:

    9781451800982

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685